Over the past couple of years, Google has progressively added vertical search results above its regular results. When you search for the weather, businesses, stock quotes, popular videos, music, addresses, airplane flight status, and more, the search results of what you are looking for are presented immediately. The vast majority of users are no longer clicking through pages of Google results: They are instantly getting an answer to their question

Of course this is an area that Bing has invested heavily in, building not only instant answers, but in some cases full pages for entertainment related search queries, offering up song snippets, videos, lyrics, and more all from a single page.

Google is also beginning to have to deal with some very Microsoft-ish problems, too: as a number of anti-trust inquiries are surfacing, from both the US and from the European Union.

So, are we seeing cracks in the armor? Or is this just a tech meme running its course?